Frances Evangelista
@nonsuchbook.bsky.social
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Print junkie. Librarian. Educator. Podcaster.
https://onebrightbook.com/
Going to buy it just for the cover.
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“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.”
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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️
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#NYRBWomen26
I’m making dinner & relistening to this excellent episode of
@onebrightbook.bsky.social
on LOLLY WILLOWES. If you haven’t listened, highly recommend.
onebrightbook.com/2022/06/25/e...
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Episode 5: Lolly Willowes or The Loving Huntsman
Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss LOLLY WILLOWES by Sylvia Townsend Warner and chat about their current reading. For our next episode, we will …
https://onebrightbook.com/2022/06/25/episode-5-lolly-willowes-or-the-loving-huntsman/
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John Williams
1 day ago
If you're in D.C. a week from tomorrow, there's an event at Politics & Prose honoring the history of Book World. I think the tone will likely be less funerary than you might imagine. I know my comments will be.
politics-prose.com/tribute-book...
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A Tribute to Book World
- Jonathan Yardley — author, book critic, Book World, 1983-2015
https://politics-prose.com/tribute-book-world
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Dreadnought Holiday
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You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
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Through the front door today. The Murder Game: Plays, Puzzles & the Golden Age by John Curran. I’ve always enjoyed Golden Age mysteries and am interested in a conversation about their resurgence in this century.
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New York Review Books
3 days ago
"One of the year’s best books.... Just as James Joyce’s Ulysses is a love letter to Dublin written in exile, so too is Effingers an ode to the [Berlin] of Tergit’s youth...."
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‘Effingers,’ a Towering Tale of German Jewry Between Bismarck and Hitler, Is a Masterpiece That Was Hiding in Plain Sight | The New York Sun
A new translation captures the heyday — and devastating end — of the unrequited love affair between Berlin and Jerusalem.
https://www.nysun.com/article/effingers-a-towering-tale-of-german-jewry-between-bismarck-and-hitler-is-a-masterpiece-that-was-hiding-in-plain-sight
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus
3 days ago
What can't Frank Wynne do! We're proud to have some of his work in our archive:
wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...
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Penelope Fitzgerald reviews Muriel Spark’s Reality and Dreams in the NYT, May 1997.
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John Williams
4 days ago
"It is a sign of a fatally limited imagination to assume that we can only ever desire the pittance to which we are currently reconciled."
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
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The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post
Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-death-of-book-world
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The New Yorker
4 days ago
Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/zmzLbN
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The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post
Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/zmzLbN
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Very excited for this one.
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Some dedications are just better than others
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“Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?” Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
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“We are very dependent on language to have feelings at all. If you have an impoverished language, you have less emotion. And if you have less emotion, you understand less about your fellow human beings." - Birgitta Trotzig Reading Queen by Birgitta Trotzig, translated from Swedish by Saskia Vogel.
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Internet Archive
12 days ago
Volunteer
#librarians
from around the world joined forces to build the Nancy Drew collection on Open Library—volunteering their time to organize series, verify editions, untangle authorship, and clean up metadata so anyone can discover these books. Learn more ➡️
blog.openlibrary.org/2026/01/30/a...
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Through the mail slot today. The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken.
7 days ago
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Fellini and Pasolini’s favourite costume designer was a movie hero in his own right, says the novelist.
www.ft.com/content/4b2e...
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Olivia Laing on Danilo Donati, ‘the secret magician of Italian cinema’
Fellini and Pasolini’s favourite costume designer was a movie hero in his own right, says the novelist
https://www.ft.com/content/4b2ee9ab-59c0-4cc6-bb5e-21372efc0732
7 days ago
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“My friend, Pasolini says, we are demonstrating that facts are immaterial in fascism, that truth is dead, that meaning is on a permanent migration. I think we are engaged in honorable work.”
7 days ago
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To Begin at the Beginning, Javier Marías, 2016. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
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“This was precisely the sort of idiocy one would expect from someone who wore white patent-leather shoes.”
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“She took one of her poodle's charcoal biscuits out of the packet and ate it herself. 'Either these are quite delicious or quite disgusting. Like many things in life, it's rather hard to tell which,' she said.”
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“When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it.” ― Iris Murdoch, Under the Net
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“To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.” ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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“The way downhill, into the bottomless incredulity which is despair, was incandescent with flowering chestnut trees.” A perfect sentence, a perfect reflection of Bowen’s work.
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Fitzcarraldo Editions
9 days ago
🦌We are excited to announce a limited edition of Polly Barton’s debut novel WHAT AM I, A DEER?🦌 This edition is available exclusively through independent bookshops and on our website, with a run of 2,500 copies. Pre-order now:
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/what-a...
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What Am I, A Deer? (Author Collection) | Fitzcarraldo Editions
To celebrate the launch of Polly Barton’s What Am I, A Deer?, we are pleased to present the author collection, a series of occasional limited editions. Available exclusively through independent booksh...
https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/what-am-i-a-deer-author-collection/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=deerindieexclusive
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Omg. WTF is Happening?
9 days ago
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks
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“Only in our virtues are we original, because virtue is difficult … Vices are general, virtues are particular.” - Iris Murdoch
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“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.” Frank O’Hara
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Levi Stahl
10 days ago
This is awful. John is one of my favorite people in this business, a wonderful writer and a skilled editor who did a great job running a book section that covered more, and more interesting, ground than most. John has forgotten more about books than most people will ever know.
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Adam Gopnik said that this novel “is the Trollope novel for people who don’t like Trollope novels.” People who do like Trollope also like the novel for the mildly ascerbic take down of what feels like current political realities. An engrossing novel, a fun conversation.
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Through the mail slot today. From
@archipelagobooks.bsky.social
. Excited for both but will be picking up Queen the instant I finish The Silver Book.
12 days ago
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One Bright Book
12 days ago
Not long until we drop our thoughts on this guy...
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13 days ago
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Starting The Silver Book by Olivia Laing.
@fsgbooks.bsky.social
13 days ago
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Logging on now to chat with
@ds228.bsky.social
and
@ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
about some Trollope.
13 days ago
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus
14 days ago
Don’t miss World in Verse, a free virtual reading today at 11am ET! Readers include Eileen O’Connor, Jackson Watson, Katerina Iliopoulou,
@michehut.bsky.social
, Nathalie Handal, Nisrine Mbarki Ben Ayad,
@samanthaschnee.bsky.social
, and Yolanda Castaño. RSVP here:
wwborders.live/WorldInVerse2026
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Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college. William Carlos Williams Seminar A Matter of Taste: Kant’s Critical Aesthetic Existentialism Critical Theory Berlioz Seminar
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15 days ago
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I’ve started thinking about the International Booker Prize as some of us do this time of year.
@stujallen.bsky.social
reached out today about getting our annual reading group back together. And I’m looking through a very good eligibility list.
www.goodreads.com/list/show/22...
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Most grateful for another snow day tomorrow. Although it may be more accurate to call it an ice day because that is what has really sunk us. Not the fluffy stuff. Starting New York Sketches by E. B. White. From the wonderful
@mcnallyeditions.com
. Not a single disappointment in that line.
18 days ago
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Thank you, winter storm.
18 days ago
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No school again tomorrow. So I’m gleefully starting a new book. A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews.
19 days ago
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That’s snow nearly covering a basement window. I’m not going anywhere. I do have a few books to read.
19 days ago
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Now watching.
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Cathy McGlynn
23 days ago
The Dud Avocado is the most gloriously quotable book I have ever read. Here’s one, out of so many other possibilities. ‘To find someone to giggle with I place just below finding someone to flirt with and just above the ability to knit’. Truly words to live by.
#BookSky
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Coffee House Press
25 days ago
For fans of absurdity, hijinks, and obsessive novels under 100 pages, galleys of Mark Haber's forthcoming novel, ADA, have arrived! Coming this July, Haber's fourth novel is "an eccentric and visionary work." —Andrea Bajani
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Through the mail slot today. So much to love. Especially excited about a US edition of White Nights.
@catranslation.org
@twolinespress.com
@andotherstories.bsky.social
25 days ago
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National Book Critics Circle
25 days ago
Announcing the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Finalists for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize!
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